Question of the day. Surprise torpedo evasion.

[Bellman]

Whilst above I make a genaralised objection to the claimed success of 'scatter' torp deployment in DW,
there are many specific situations in which this tactic is highly undesirable.

It is counterproductive to expose your position in counterfiring a distant unthreatening torp :
(1) An unseen opponent may be within range working up a final TMA or worse still completely unaware of you
until you counterfired. Your scatter will induce his shotgun response !
(2) Mind games - why put your cards face up ? Opponents must not 'know' the operational situation until its too late ! (A trade-off )
(3) Range - Stalking steatlhily working-up NB trying to achievie a launch point with reasonable
odds of success v opponents avoidance. Scatter and you blow it !!
(4) Tactics - positional play. Kara with 'controllables' - the mission objective kill the Boomer but screening SSNs.
Can you get the Boomer in range without alerting the SSNs letting her possibly slip quietly away. SSN launches
- is it a probe, is it v ally ? An auto counterfire may blow the mission completely particularly where
time constraints apply ? Try 'scatter' in Okhotsk 2 !!

Breakfast and cooling croissants interrupt, but I can think of countless other situations where scatter
will not deliver the goods. But I remain tantalised by the MP FFA mathematics ! :hmm: